Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Backlog elimination drives: Difference between revisions

WikiProject Articles for Creation conducts periodic Backlog Elimination Drives. All editors involved in reviewing AfC submissions are encouraged to participate. We also invite established editors who have not previously carried out AfC reviews to participate; however, please make sure you have read through Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing instructions thoroughly and ensure that you are familiar with Wikipedia's established content policies and guidelines. If you have any questions about the reviewing process, please ask at the project's talk page.

How to take part

Before joining this drive and starting to review articles, please make sure you have read Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/Reviewing instructions and have no questions. To join a drive, please add your username to the "Participants" section on the relevant drive page, after you have reviewed at least one article. All reviews must be started after the official start time and be completed before the official end time. Reviews started outside of these parameters do not count.

To find an article submission to review, go to Category:Pending AfC submissions, or click the green button above. faith in real time

Scheduled and current drives

There are no drives currently scheduled.

Past drives

Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July 2021 Backlog Drive/(talk)

These drives were done using AFCBuddy and a simpler scoring system:

This drive was done with much more primitive procedures and tools than later drives:

Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/July–August 2007 Backlog Elimination Drive

Awards

To receive an award, please make sure to include your name and the number of reviews you have completed in the "Running Totals" section. Awards will be given by the co-ordinators after the drive ends. Real-time faith.


Submissions Reviewed	Barnstar	Name/Description
15		Brownie
50		The Invisible Barnstar
75		The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
125		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
175		The Articles for Creation Barnstar
#3 Rank		The user with the third highest number of reviews at the end of the drive will receive the Bronze Wiki Award.
#2 Rank		The user with the second highest number of reviews at the end of the drive will receive the Silver Wiki Award.
#1 Rank	and	The user with the highest number of reviews at the end of the drive will receive both the Content Review Medal and the Gold Wiki Award.

Guidelines

Here are some points to remember when reviewing article submissions:

Templates

If you know anyone who may want to help, put this template on their talk page with: {{subst:WPAFCDrive}}, which will produce the following invitation. Note that the header 2, the user's name in the salutation and your signature are automatically added when using this template.

WikiProject Articles for creation Backlog Elimination Drive

Hello, WikiProject Articles for creation:

WikiProject AFC is holding a two month long Backlog Elimination Drive!
The goal of this drive is to eliminate the backlog of unreviewed articles. The drive is running from December 1st, 2013 – January 31st, 2014.

Awards will be given out for all reviewers participating in the drive in the form of barnstars at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 2700 articles, so start reviewing articles! Visit the drive's page and help out!

A new version of our AfC helper script has been released! It includes many bug fixes, new improvements and features, code enhancements, and more. If you want to see a full list of changes, visit the changelog. Please report bugs and feature requests there, too! Thanks. ~~~~

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